The Blog
to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
The Blog
to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
“Women Are Messed Up”
Before those of us of the female gender become offended at my above title, please allow me to explain. My heart broke for our gender the other evening. My husband and I enjoyed a relaxing dinner at one of our favorite spots. There, I was startled at the behavior some...
The Brown Jacket and The Indescribable Gift
Here it is. The bag full of clothing I no longer wear. I'm glad I can donate them to someone who can use them. Maybe I should look through it one more time. Yep. Buying mistakes. Styles that have come and gone. Some no longer fit. Clothes I will never wear again. But,...
Teaching Our Children (Or Ourselves) About Easter
A day off from school, yet we have to go to church at 2pm? And we have to hear the same message about Jesus dying on the cross? Why do I want to hear about the crown of thorns and the nails? That's gross. If He died, why then is this Friday called Good? I never "got...
Five Minute Friday – Glue
Friday! I love Fridays. The day we write for five minutes on a subject w ith a one word prompt. With no concern about punctuation, grammar, all those things we normally focus on. Pure writing. Here goes. GLUE Wrapping the orange, gray and turquoise shades of yarn...
The Grass is Greener Elsewhere??
"I would love to stay home and take care of my family. Delicious dinners, full of love and devotion--perfectly arranged on plates--would be common in our home. Our son would wake to the mouth-watering aroma of warm-out-of-the-oven chocolate chips muffins. His...
W2W – Letting Go & Letting God
The words cut to my core. Sharp like a knife, they sliced through my ears and pierced my heart. James was spot-on when he wrote the tongue being "a restless evil, full of deadly poison." The one who voiced those slicing words has no idea how still today, years later,...
